Love the lily one...hope you find the baker, as they richly deserve recognition. It would be a fantastic wedding cake.

--kate

P.S. While this site is wonderful in both concept and execution, I must admit that I really love Sunday Sweets. What a great idea! It's a good way to recover from the "Desiccated Salmon-Colored Incest Cake" and CCC scarfs. Sunday Sweets is like the perfect gumpaste flower to the rest of this wonderful site. Thanks!

Loving the cow cake!! My best friend used to call my Mom "Moo"...dunno why, but whatev.

HER mother used to make a basket cake with flowers "in" it. She sure could pipe a mean basket weave pattern I tell ya. I think she used a round cake, and cut a round piece of cardboard then cut it in half to use as the open "lid" of the round basket. Course, she's pipe the basket weave icing deal on the cardboard too, and angle it so it looked like the lid was open. Then, in the open part, she's do her roses and such. Was a beautiful cake and she made oodles of 'em...wish I had a picture so I could send it in. :(

I'm the owner of Torte Bella, the shop that made the cake you posted that's covered in flowers, w/ the overlapping fondant pieces covering the cake, just wanted to let everyone know that ALL of those flowers are made out of sugar, by me! Every leaf, every petal of every flower is hand made, and hand airbrushed :) I'm very proud of my work! Happy mothers day to everyone!

The first cake resulted in a simultaneous "awww" from my husband and I. Then he said "hehehe if you let your eyes relax it looks like a very old, very naked lady cow" (imagine that said in a backwoods Pennsylvania accent) It took a moment but I got it. Now what has been seen cannot be unseen.

Thanks Pat, another cute thing ruined by your 12 year old boy mentality.

These are all so beautiful! But I have to say that the Tortebella cake looks pretty wrecky to me.. not because it isn't well made (the flowers are beautiful!!) but because its design just looks so terribly busy. Am I the only one that felt this way? :O

Having seen what people can do with gum paste, I'm pretty convinced that the flower was created by the decorator. Jen and I just made a wedding cake and the gum paste orchid we put on top looked much better than the fake ones on the table.

I do, however, have to agree with you. After searching the net for two hours, I couldn't find any better cakes for Mother's Day. Jen's exact words were, "That's all you could find?" I guess we all get our expectations up when it comes to Sweets and I think sometimes it's okay to step back and appreciate the beauty in simplicity.

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